Table 1.
Descriptive Information by SC County.
| Targeted counties | Nontargeted counties | |||||
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| Measure | Charleston | Berkeley | Dorchester | Greenville | Pickens | Laurens |
| Population, 2013 estimate | 372,803 | 194,020 | 145,397 | 474,266 | 119,829 | 66,229 |
| Gender (% female), 2013 | 51.6 | 50.0 | 51.2 | 51.4 | 50.2 | 51.5 |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| % White, non-Hispanic | 63.1 | 64.2 | 65.0 | 69.5 | 86.6 | 68.4 |
| % Black | 20.0 | 25.0 | 26.0 | 18.5 | 6.8 | 25.9 |
| % Hispanic | 5.2 | 6.1 | 4.7 | 8.7 | 3.4 | 4.2 |
| Education (persons ≥ 25 years) | ||||||
| % High school graduate or higher | 87.8 | 86.2 | 88.9 | 85.3 | 82.3 | 77.1 |
| % Bachelor's degree or higher | 38.4 | 20.5 | 24.2 | 30.9 | 23.0 | 14.4 |
| Economics (2008–2012) | ||||||
| Median household income | US$50,289 | US$51,476 | US$54,912 | US$48,438 | US$41,947 | US$38,829 |
| % Persons below poverty | 17.7 | 14.3 | 11.4 | 15.2 | 18.4 | 20.0 |
| Persons per square mile | 382.3 | 161.8 | 238.2 | 785.1 | 240.0 | 93.2 |
Note. Source for all estimates except violent crime rate: State & County QuickFacts at http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/45000.html. Race/ethnicity does not include extreme minority categories and therefore does not sum to 100%.